Zelenskyy signs law on amendments to the state budget of 2023

The New Voice of Ukraine
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Volodymyr Zelenskyy
Volodymyr Zelenskyy

The government is increasing expenditures and the provision of credits to the special fund of the state budget by more than UAH 5.5 billion ($149 million) with the following funding:

  • grants and assistance from partners (UAH 445.6 million or $12.1 million);

  • additional external loans (UAH 3.84 billion or $104,000);

  • the return of funds provided by the Ministry of Economy to Social Insurance Fund for Unemployment for the payment of benefits (UAH 1.27 billion or $34.4 million).

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The 2023 state budget spending will be increased, among others, for the following:

  • the reconstruction and modernization of Ukraine's biggest children hospital Okhmatdyt, a university clinic in Kyiv, and a rehabilitation center in Lviv (UAH 1.35 billion or $36.6 million);

  • rebuilding of bridges (UAH 1.12 billion or $30.3 million);

  • grants for small and microbusinesses in the processing sector (UAH 1.28 billion or $34.7 million);

  • setting up checkpoints on the Ukrainian-Polish border (UAH 1.094 billion or $29.6 million);

  • the Partial Loan Guarantee Fund for Ukrainian agriculture funding (UAH 365.7 million or $10 million);

Ukraine's state budget 2023 was adopted in November 2022. About half of its expenditures or UAH 1.1 trillion or $29.8 billion were allocated to national defense.

Read also: Budget committee approves draft state budget for 2023, ready for voting in parliament

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